Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Smith, John, 1792?-1824.
2. Gladstone, Jack, active 1823.
3. Ellerton & Henderson, printer.

Description

1. p. [53]-64; 22 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Series statement

1. Negro slavery ; no. 7

Uniform title

1. Negro slavery ; no. 7.

Alternative title

1. Negro slavery. No. VII

Subject

1. Gladstone, Jack, active 1823
2. Slave insurrections > Guyana > Demerara
3. Slave insurrections > West Indies, British
4. Smith, John, 1792?-1824
5. Slavery > West Indies, British

Call number

1. Sc Rare 326.4G-N (Negro slavery)

Note

1. At head of caption title: Negro slavery. No. VII.
2. Some sections of text printed in double columns.
3. Place of publication and printer statement from colophon, p. 64.
4. Relates involvement of John Smith and Jack Gladstone in the August 1823 Demerara insurrection.
5. Latest date in text 11th October, 1823, p. 64. Series dated 1824 on p. [65] (Negro slavery no. 8, "Insurrection in the West Indies") and p. 90 (Negro slavery no. 10, "The driving system.")
6. Signatures: H⁶

Indexed in (note)

1. Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)
2. Ragatz, L.J. Guide for the study of British Caribbean history, 1763-1834

Provenance (note)

1. is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Title

1. Insurrections of slaves in the West Indies : particularly in Demerara.

Imprint

1. [London] : Ellerton and Henderson, printers, Gough Square, London, [1824?]

Series

1. Negro slavery ; no. 7
2. Negro slavery ; no. 7.

Indexed in:

1. Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), Suppl. 1140
2. Ragatz, L.J. Guide for the study of British Caribbean history, 1763-1834, p. 387 and 433

Provenance

1. Copy in Sc Rare 326.4G-N (accession no. B526634) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local note

1. Copy in Sc Rare 326.4G-N bound with the full series of pamphlets (nos. 1-6, 8-17) in a volume with the spine title "Negro Slavery", and a typewritten list of the pamphlets bound at the front of the volume, with their reference page in Ragatz. NN

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Added author

1. Smith, John, 1792?-1824.
2. Gladstone, Jack, active 1823.
3. Ellerton & Henderson, printer.
4. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research call number

1. Sc Rare 326.4G-N (Negro slavery)